From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264383AbTL3Ebc (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:31:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264405AbTL3Ebc (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:31:32 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:32396 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264383AbTL3Eb1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:31:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:07:28 -0500 From: Willem Riede To: Pete Zaitcev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x Message-ID: <20031229130728.GW1277@linnie.riede.org> Reply-To: wrlk@riede.org References: <200312290457.hBT4vJFj006089@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <200312290457.hBT4vJFj006089@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (from zaitcev@redhat.com on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 23:57:19 -0500) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003.12.28 23:57, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for > > OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives > > exist in SCSI, ATAPI, USB and IEEE1394 versions. > > > One high-level driver, osst, handles all of them, and that's how > > it should be, right? For ATAPI, it relies on ide-scsi. > > > > (By the way, ide-tape contains code for the ATAPI version, the > > DI-30, but that code is old and has serveral known problems - > > I'd like to see it removed - or at least deprecated - I will do > > that myself later if people want me to.) > > Based on my expirience with ide-tape, I would rather have it > killed instead. One neat trick to appease enemies of ide-scsi > might be to rename it into ide-scsi into ide-tape-bis. > Might even add DSC bit handling... But the ide-tape is too > ugly to live for sure. I would agree, but would that get any people in trouble? That is, are there any IDE tape drives currently supported by ide-tape, that are not compatble with ide-scsi plus st? Thanks, Willem Riede.